Airport security

Paul Stephen/The Star-News/Associated Press
Passengers at the Wilmington International Airport pass through a full-body imaging machine. Such security procedures can be especially frightening for children.

Do you hate airport security screenings? Think about the kids

Airport security can try the patience of even the most stoic adults. But for young children, it can be downright scary.

Hearing a friend's horror story of how a recent family trip nearly didn't happen because his child had a tantrum over surrendering a beloved blankie to the maw of an X-ray machine, I was reminded of a similar travel trauma in our family.

Rowdy TSA officers charged with trashing hotel room, shooting gun out window

MIAMI -- Miami Beach police say two Transportation Security Administration officers partied a little too hard Tuesday night, trashed their South Beach hotel room and then picked up a semi-automatic handgun and shot six rounds out the window.

(Video) TSA pat down of child in wheelchair not all it seems

CHICAGO -- A video viewed more than 200,000 times since it was posted to YouTube on Sunday is apparently supposed to show that the Transportation Security Administration is harassing the traveling public, in this case a young boy on his way to Disney World with his family. But the video is not exactly what it appears to be.

Handgun

Loaded gun at SLC airport is 5th found this year

SALT LAKE CITY -- Transportation Safety Administration officials say a loaded gun found at the Salt Lake City airport is the fifth firearm they've confiscated there this year.

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